Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.